Effects of fire and three fire-fighting chemicals on main soil properties, plant nutrient content and vegetation growth and cover after 10 years

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 515-516, Issue , 2015, Pages 92-100

  Fernandez Fernandez M ^a   Gomez Rey M X ^a   Gonzalez Prieto S J ^a  

^a Santiago de Compostela   (Spain)

Author keywords

Flame retardants; Nutrients; Shrubs; Trace elements; Trees; 15N

Indexed keywords

CHEMICALS; ECOLOGY; FIRE EXTINGUISHERS; FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT; FIRES; FLAME RETARDANTS; FORESTRY; NUTRIENTS; SODIUM; TRACE ELEMENTS; WATER TREATMENT;

AMMONIUM POLYPHOSPHATES; ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES; FIRE-FIGHTING CHEMICALS; SHRUBS; SOIL AVAILABLE P; SOIL PLANT SYSTEMS; TREES; VEGETATION GROWTH;

SOILS;

ALUMINUM; AMMONIA; CALCIUM; COPPER; IRON; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; MOLYBDENUM; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SODIUM; TRACE ELEMENT; ZINC; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT;

CHEMICAL COMPOUND; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FIRE; GROWTH RESPONSE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PRESCRIBED BURNING; SOIL PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRACE ELEMENT; VEGETATION COVER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ERICA UMBELLATA; FIRE; MACRONUTRIENT; NONHUMAN; PH; PINUS PINASTER; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT NUTRIENT; PTEROSPARTUM TRIDENTATUM; SHRUB; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL QUALITY; SYMBIOSIS; TREE; ULEX MICRANTHUS; VEGETATION; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; DISASTER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

FLAME RETARDANTS; NUTRIENTS; SHRUBS; TRACE ELEMENTS; TREES;

ERICA UMBELLATA; GENISTA TRIACANTHOS; PINUS PINASTER; PTEROSPARTUM TRIDENTATUM; ULEX MICRANTHUS;

DISASTERS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIRES; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TRACE ELEMENTS; TREES;

EID: 84922964947     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.02.048     Document Type: Article

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